The resource trichotomy
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The Resource Trichotomy
JAMES
BOYD
There are three basic material resources: Materials, Energy, and the Environment. One can no longer be studied intelligently without considering the other two. Other than human and spiritual resources, which are equally involved, all resource considerations can be included in these three categories. The cleavage that has developed among those most deeply involved in the three resource areas is a frequently bitter trichotomy. Each of the three involves vast areas of ignorance as well as tremendous vistas of knowledge. Intercommunication among the disciplines in terms that the layman can understand is as essential as the basic scientific work itself. And it will not happen until the trichotomy becomes what it used to be--a trinity of interest rather than a deep cleavage. THE distinction that you have conferred by asking me to deliver this lecture is deeply appreciated. That you have asked a geologist to accept this important assignment is a tribute to a growing realization of a very real, but often Ignored interdependence of the various segments of the materials system. As engineering scientists, we have passed the mere technological stage in that we have matured in our thinking; we have begun to recognize that today our talents and services cannot be confined to our professions alone.
In p r e p a r a t i o n for this lecture, I read and reread much of the appropriate literature which will be listed in a brief bibliography when this paper is eventually published. This was a revealing and an humbling experience. I discovered that most of the ideas and concepts that I will be presenting to you, and had thought might be original, have in one way or another been articulated by others. Because some from this audience have contributed to this literature, I suspect that much that I will say may strike a familiar note.
JAMES BOYD was Executive Director of the National Commission on Materials Policy which just submitted its report to the President and the Congress. Before that he was President of Copper Range Company, one of the largest American copper producers, and has achieved notable success as a corporate executive, educator, government official, and geologist. Dr. Boyd joined Copper Range as President and Director in 1960. Prior to joining Copper Range, Dr. Boyd served nineyears with Kennecott Copper Company as Vice President of Exploration. In this position he organized and directed Kennecott's worldwide exploration program. Before that, Dr. Boyd was Director of the Bureau of Mines from 1947 to 1951. He also served during World War II as head of the Army and Navy Munitions Board's Metal Branch, where he helped mobilize the mining industry for the war efforrt. He also aided in Germany's industrial recovery following the war, as Director of the Industrial Division of the military government. Dr. Boyd's career as an educator began in 1929, when, for several years, he was on the faculty of the Colorado School of Mines, one of the nation's leading mining institutions. Following World
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